The Victory Lap: Everyday People Pursuing Wellness Everyday  

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  Date / Time: 8/30/2009 6:53 PM UTC

  Second Broadcast of First Show

  Tomorrow I am repeating the broadcast of my premier episode with guest Farnoosh Brock. This August 31 airing will be the episode saved for archive and download as the original August 23 broadcast will be removed.
  
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• Date / Time: 8/18/2009 3:15 AM UTC

  Find Out Why I Had To Have These Two Women On My Show....

  Join me , Leon "The Encourager" Bullard on Sunday, August 23, 2009 for the first broadcast of my wellness talk show, The Victory Lap.  My featured guests are Farnoosh Brock and April Young... two women who have created winning wellness. Read more about them now.
  

  
  

  Farnoosh Brock

  Farnoosh is a vivacious woman, adept worker and considerate wife on a quest to find balance in her wellness. If you have ever used a scale then you know that the interesting thing about finding balance is the process involves adding and subtracting different weights until you get it right. And that is exactly what she does.

   

  During her life, her eating patterns have been wide-ranging from nonchalantly eating out often with a busy work schedule and frequent travel itinerary to probingly choosing to eat a vegetarian diet. She has been active, too, with kickboxing classes, step aerobics, walking, yoga, weight training and Argentine tango dance. The more options she explored while working to find the right balance, the more she learned about what harms her and what helps her, what she dislikes and what she enjoys, and what not only brings her satisfaction but also thrills and invigorates her.

   

  The pursuit of wellness is never-ending and she is certainly not at the finish line. But she has a massive amount of wisdom from the time she has invested to develop herself. Join me on The Victory Lap, Sunday August 23 at 4pm to hear more about how she has overcome life’s issues one by one to create a beautifully balanced healthy lifestyle.

  
  

  April Young

  Ten years ago, April was a content woman. She was finishing graduate school and starting her career. She actively exercised regularly by doing biking, strength training, aerobics classes and competing in triathlons. She had even improved to her best weight and lowest body-fat after a 12-week body transformation competition. She felt like she could not have been more attractive or in any better shape. She even started part-time personal training to help others.
  
  Fast forward nine years. She began 2008 with the same goals she had set for 2007...and 2006: to eat less junk food, fast food and food overall, to eat healthier, to exercise more often and more consistently and to find balance between life and work. But the year progressed just as it did in the years prior. The combination of investing longer hours at work, struggling with personal issues and not breaking out of her wellness comfort zone kept her shackled for most of the year.
  
  By the end of the summer, she was the heaviest she had ever been and she was finally fed up. Six months later she completely turned her weight and her wellness around! Join me on The Victory Lap, Sunday, August 23 at 4pm to hear how she created a new lifestyle and a better than ever body plus how this transformation will be different than the one a decade ago.

  To call in with a question or comment or listen to the show live via telephone, keep this number: (718) 664-9466

  To download the show post-broadcast, listen to the stream or listen live via the Internet, come to http://blogtalkradio.com/victorious
  

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• Date / Time: 8/16/2009 1:46 PM UTC

  399 Days Ago

  I remember the day clearly.
  
  I was on the telephone with a friend and fellow Toastmaster Naomi Takeuchi. She was asking me how things were going with my health and fitness work. I told her what I had been telling everyone else, “A few months ago I stopped doing personal training and wellness coaching full-time. Now, I have a full-time job and while I do have a few training and coaching clients, I am focused on writing a wellness book and considering speaking opportunities and projects.”
  
  I thought that response would suffice as it usually does. But Naomi wanted to know more, “What types of speaking  projects are you considering?” I actually had an idea so I replied, “A podcast,” in a definitive manner… it was my non-verbal way of expressing that I had nothing further to add right now. Either she did not pick up on my cue or she was truly very interested in knowing more because the conversation continued.
  
  “What will the podcast be about?”
  “Oh…health, wellness, fitness…I have been developing my Victorious Wellness platform so it will be, you know, stuff like that.”
  “When are you going to start?”
  “Ummm! Soon.”
  
  I don’t think she was sure how to read my shallow responses. Was I just newly thinking about this idea? Was I just being indecisive? Was I sure about going forward and procrastinating?
  
  Soon after this exchange, the call was coming to a close. And somehow, someway she got me thinking that I was going to get this podcast idea off the ground, up and running, on the air—just fill in your best cliché—by August…2008!
  
  So, the seed took root and I began thinking seriously about creating a podcast. And I thought about what I would want to say. And I considered who I wanted to benefit. And as I thought, the days turned to weeks and then months. Well, it did not happen by August 2008, but I could not get the thought out of my head.
  
  So, here I am today in August 2009 launching my BlogTalkRadio show (which is way more elaborate than the podcast idea I had). I want to give a special thanks to Naomi for getting me all fired up in the first place. I also want to thank BTR show host Beverly Mahone for both introducing me to BlogTalkRadio and encouraging me to just get started and have my message heard.
  
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